endorse

英 [ɪn'dɔːs; en-]美 [ɪn'dɔrs]
  • vt. 背书；认可；签署；赞同；在背面签名
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中文词源

endorse 背书，支持

en-, 进入，使。-dors, 背，见dorsal. 财务术语，即在背后签字。

英文词源

endorse
endorse: [16] To endorse something is literally to write ‘on the back’ of it. The word comes from medieval Latin indorsāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and dorsum ‘back’ (source of English dorsal, doss, and dossier). (An earlier English version of the word was endoss [14], acquired via Old French endosser, which died out in the 17th century.)
=> dorsal, doss, dossier
endorse (v.)
c. 1400, endosse "confirm or approve" (a charter, bill, etc.), originally by signing or writing on the back of the document, from Old French endosser (12c.), literally "to put on the back," from en- "put on" (see en- (1)) + dos "back," from Latin dossum, variant of dorsum "back" (see dorsal). Assimilated 16c. in form to Medieval Latin indorsare. Figurative sense of "confirm, approve" is recorded in English first in 1847. Related: Endorsed; endorsing.
You can endorse, literally, a cheque or other papers, &, metaphorically, a claim or argument, but to talk of endorsing material things other than papers is a solecism. [Fowler]

双语例句

1. The payee of the cheque must endorse the cheque.
领款人必须在支票上背书。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.
我真诚地赞同他的话。
来自《权威词典》
3. The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land.
该计划没有明确地支持土地私有制.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. No one is foolish enough to endorse it.
没有哪个人会傻得赞成它.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.
我完全拥护你对此课题的主张.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》